Author: Guest column
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What happened to common decency? | Guest column
By Tricia Tennesen Leo Tolstoy wrote, “If you feel pain, you are alive. If you feel other people’s pain, you are a human being.” I am a human being. One who loves to read, which places me deeply into others’ minds, often empathizing with their struggles and fears. During the COVID-19 masking, the Mr. and…
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Times have changed | Guest Column
By Lyla Saunier I am writing in response to the Feb.18th letter – “Citizens Good – Immigrants Bad.” It was stated that Immigrants have a positive impact on federal, state and local governments. I believe this was true in the past, my family came to America legally in the early 1900s along with many others…
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Too Late to Pull the Plug? | Guest Column
By Bob Carnein For several decades, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, Americans have gradually ceded control over their lives to creeping corporatism. From health care to regulation of food producers, from public safety to war and propaganda, and from environmental issues to the focus of government scientific research, corporations have been given powers that…
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Too Late to Pull the Plug? | Guest Column
By Bob Carnein For several decades, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, Americans have gradually ceded control over their lives to creeping corporatism. From health care to regulation of food producers, from public safety to war and propaganda, and from environmental issues to the focus of government scientific research, corporations have been given powers that…
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Show grace, not venom | Guest Column
By Donna McMurtry Renee Good was my cousin before she was shot and killed in Minneapolis. Before the entire nation began watching the shooting from multiple angles and before it became the latest political battleground. Renee’s grandmother and mine were sisters, born 19 months apart in a tiny log cabin in Divide. That cabin still…
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Show grace, not venom | Guest Column
By Donna McMurtry Renee Good was my cousin before she was shot and killed in Minneapolis. Before the entire nation began watching the shooting from multiple angles and before it became the latest political battleground. Renee’s grandmother and mine were sisters, born 19 months apart in a tiny log cabin in Divide. That cabin still…
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Response to immigration and protests | Guest column
By Pat Miller A recent editorial criticized those protesting the Trump administration’s immigration policies, asserting that deportees are not “immigrants,” but rather “contract breakers” (overstayed visas) or “scofflaws” (border jumpers). This narrow perspective contradicts the Merriam-Webster definition of an immigrant as “a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence” and implies…
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Clarifying the record and looking ahead | Guest column
By Michael B. Perini, ABC On Dec. 17, The Courier published the article, “Audit of RE-2 finds disparities.” Because that article referenced Merit Academy in incomplete ways and, in several cases, incorrectly, it is crucial to provide our families, community and taxpayers with clarity, accuracy and context. First and foremost, Merit Academy was never contacted by the…
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Becoming a person | Guest column
By Vinh Chung Only recently have I begun to understand what my mother was trying to teach me. She believed that integrity, patience, courage, and kindness weren’t just nice virtues. Without them, I wasn’t yet fully a person. Whenever I was unkind or inconsiderate, she would gently say, “Son, you must learn how to become…
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Response to immigration and the rule of law | Guest column
By Holly Sample Pikes Peak Courier Editor Doug Fitzgerald’s December 10 commentary regarding the rule of law and rhetoric concerning immigration enforcement may simply be an attempt to gin up some public controversy now that the RE 2 School Board election is over and Letters to the Editor have dried up. Or it may reflect…